Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist newspapers agreed it was "a great event," but "the All-European Security Conference" was not so well attended as Molotov had hoped. No Western or even neutral country turned up. Across the hollow square of tables in Moscow's Spiridonovka House, Molotov was left confronting the hollow men representing Russia's seven European satellites...
DAVID DALLIN, author of Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, in a letter to the New York Times: vYACHESLAV MOLOTOV'S repeated warnings are intended to prepare the West for a significant new move on the part of the Soviet Union. In the first years after the war it was expected, both in Russia and abroad, that the newly emerging satellite states would be incorporated into the Soviet Union...
...signed the presentation book, announced that she had canceled her contribution to Churchill's birth day fund, since "I do not desire to pay tribute to a man who now reveals he was prepared to ... create a pact with Nazi forces more infamous and less justified than the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact...
...Chinese civilians were homeless. Ho's patient preparation was finally rewarded last spring, when the Communists struck characteristically on two fronts 5,000 miles apart: with Red China field guns and Russian rocket launchers, they crumbled the valiant French garrison at Dien-bienphu; with Chou En-lai and Molotov, they crumbled Western resolution at Geneva. One day last month, in one of the most extraordinary spectacles of Asia's long, unfolding panorama, French tanks withdrew from Hanoi before Viet Minh infantrymen wearing sneakers...
...another point, Molotov raised his glass to "better understanding" between the U.S. and Russia. "Chip" Bohlen responded handsomely by describing Comrade Molotov as "the most experienced diplomat in this room," recalled Molotov's incognito visit to Washington as "Mr. Brown" during World War II, and toasted "his next visit to Washington." Then Bohlen leaned over to reporters behind him and made it plain that he was not really extending an invitation...